A plume of water rises into the air outside Sandy’s Fishmonger. A new idea as part of the Twickenham Action Plan or simply a burst water main? We reckon the latter but it made for quite a sight on a rainy Monday in October. Cue plenty of traffic disruption and local shopkeepers digging out their insurance policies.

Richmond Council have just announced that the temporary road closures and diversions will remain in place for 24 hours while Thames Water carry out remedial work. Here’s their page about it.

Twickenham police today expressed their ‘general satisfaction’ with yesterday’s test of new crowd control measures in preparation for the Chelsea move but conceded that one or two ‘teething issues’ might still need to be ironed out going forward.

We were confidently told by the Thames Water bods last night that drinking water would be distrubuted to houses without water. No sign of this, so very glad to see the water back on this morning.The line is the spout was caused “by one of our operatives”. So the Water company didn’t know where the water main was??
Poor Sandys-the nicest business in Twickenham.Suggest we all rush in and buy up big when they reopen.

Plenty of water coming out of the ground, but none coming out of my taps right now. Quite the blitz spirit when I went to Morrison’s just now to get some of the bottled variety (of which there’s not much left).

Hoping for some free fish/lobster floating (swimming) down the road but no luck!b

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